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Named Person: | Jonathan Edwards; Ralph Waldo Emerson; William James |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Andrea Knutson |
ISBN: | 0195370929 9780195370928 |
OCLC Number: | 759125715 |
Description: | ix, 188 p. ; 25 cm |
Contents: | A believing attitude -- "Something that is seen, that is wonderful" : Jonathan Edwards and the feeling of conviction -- Ralph Waldo Emerson and the "universal impulse to believe" -- William James's uncertain universe : theory as theology in the varieties of religious experience. |
Responsibility: | Andrea Knutson. |
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Knutson has given us a powerful rethinking and cogent reformulation of one of the main currents in American thought. This is a fresh new take on the conversion experience with the emphasis on experience. * Robert D. Richardson, author of William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism * Read more...
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- Conversion -- Christianity.
- Puritans -- Doctrines.
- Puritans -- Influence.
- Edwards, Jonathan, -- 1703-1758.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, -- 1803-1882.
- James, William, -- 1842-1910.
- Conversion -- Christianisme.
- Puritains -- Doctrines.
- Puritains -- Influence.
- Bekering.
- Christendom.
- Puriteinen.
- Verenigde Staten.